Despite working at a competitor, I am happy Anthropic exists. I worry about centralization of control- I want OpenAI to be successful but I don’t want it to be a monopoly. Competition can create incentives to cut corners, but it also enables a variety of ideas and approaches as well as collaboration when it comes to safety. (And there have been some such cross industry collaborations.) In particular I appreciate some of the great research on AI safety that has come from Anthropic.
No company is perfect, we all make mistakes, which we should be criticized for. But I think many of the critiques (of both OpenAI and Anthropic) are based on unrealistic and naive world views.
I suspect the real disagreement between you and Anthropic-blamers like me is downstream of a P(Doom) disagreement (where yours is pretty low and others’ is high), since I’ve seen this is often the case with various cases of smart people disagreeing.
Realistically/pragmatically balanced moves in a lowish-P(Doom) world are unacceptable in a high-P(Doom) world.
Despite working at a competitor, I am happy Anthropic exists. I worry about centralization of control- I want OpenAI to be successful but I don’t want it to be a monopoly. Competition can create incentives to cut corners, but it also enables a variety of ideas and approaches as well as collaboration when it comes to safety. (And there have been some such cross industry collaborations.) In particular I appreciate some of the great research on AI safety that has come from Anthropic.
No company is perfect, we all make mistakes, which we should be criticized for. But I think many of the critiques (of both OpenAI and Anthropic) are based on unrealistic and naive world views.
I suspect the real disagreement between you and Anthropic-blamers like me is downstream of a P(Doom) disagreement (where yours is pretty low and others’ is high), since I’ve seen this is often the case with various cases of smart people disagreeing.
Realistically/pragmatically balanced moves in a lowish-P(Doom) world are unacceptable in a high-P(Doom) world.